Posted AT 3:41 AM EDT on 31/10/06
Flaherty revives pledge to slash capital gains tax
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is looking at ways to make good on a pledge to provide a break on capital gains taxes in the 2007 federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says, after balking last spring at the difficulties involved.
The Tories withheld the measure from the 2006 budget lineup because it needed more work.
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